1792 - Campbell to Ambrose - Westmoreland Co, vA
Manumission Item Data Item Type Metadata
Date
05/29/1792
Manumitter
Manumitted
Number of Persons
1
Text of Freedom Document
Satisfied that unconditional slavery is as incompatible with the rules which nature hath prescribed, do with those which human policy dictates and that it is a complete violation of both. I Alexander Campbell by this indenture do grant freedom to my trusty & faithful slave Ambrose. In doing which it is fully impressed upon my mind that I make to him but a small compensation for the unmerited wrong which he suffered in the original privation of his freedom, and in his exclusion from liberty for a long series of years. Therefore, this indenture doth witness that I the said Alexander Campbell in consideration hereof do by this said indenture make, so far as my relinquishment of all right and title can make, the said Ambrose a freeman: happy in the deed by which I add one member to the free family of mankind. And in pursuit of that duty which the law of my country and the law prescribed by my own feelings do impose, I promise with the most solemn assurances of a strict observance of the obligation that I will support and maintain the said Ambrose whenever by age or accidental circumstance he shall be unable to maintain himself. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 16th day of May 1792.
Sealed and delivered Alex Campbell (seal)
for the benefit of the said
Ambrose this 16th May 1792
in the presence of
Hannah Kipkins
I do hereby constitute John James Maund Esq’r my attorney to acknowledge for me the execution of the within deed. Witness my hand this 16th May 1792.
Alex Campbell
At a court of quarterly sessions held for Westmoreland County the 29th day of May 1792. This deed of manumission passed from Alexander Campbell to Ambrose was acknowledged by John James Maund, special attorney in fact, for that purpose for the said Campbell and ordered to be recorded.
Exam’d Teste, Ja. Bland CWC
Sealed and delivered Alex Campbell (seal)
for the benefit of the said
Ambrose this 16th May 1792
in the presence of
Hannah Kipkins
I do hereby constitute John James Maund Esq’r my attorney to acknowledge for me the execution of the within deed. Witness my hand this 16th May 1792.
Alex Campbell
At a court of quarterly sessions held for Westmoreland County the 29th day of May 1792. This deed of manumission passed from Alexander Campbell to Ambrose was acknowledged by John James Maund, special attorney in fact, for that purpose for the said Campbell and ordered to be recorded.
Exam’d Teste, Ja. Bland CWC
Record Location
DWB 18:245
Document Type
Deed
Notes
unconditional slavery is as incompatible with the rules which nature hath prescribed
Files
Collection
Citation
“1792 - Campbell to Ambrose - Westmoreland Co, vA,” Manumission Project, accessed June 16, 2026, https://manumissionproject.omeka.net/items/show/2926.